Caption transcript for Revelation Extra: “Pre-Trib Conference” (4/7)

• 00:47 SHALOM, HELLO AGAIN.
• 00:49 YOU KNOW PROPHECY CONFERENCES KIND OF COME AND GO.
• 00:51 I'VE SPOKEN AT THEM FOR YEARS.
• 00:53 [CLEARS THROAT] EXCUSE ME.
• 00:55 MY VOICE IS A LITTLE BIT DOWN.
• 00:57 THEY WERE GOOD IN THE 70S AND 80S, BACK WHEN ISRAEL HAD WON ITS 67 WAR AND 73 WAR.
• 01:04 IT LOOKED LIKE THE LORD WAS COMING AND PEOPLE MET ALL THE TIME TALKING ABOUT PROPHECY.
• 01:08 AND THEN FOR A WHILE IT SEEMED LIKE IT DIED OFF.
• 01:11 I WASN'T INVITED TO THESE THINGS AND NOT MANY PEOPLE TOOK UP PROPHECY.
• 01:16 AND NOW THEY'RE COMING BACK.
• 01:18 SOMETIMES THERE ARE LARGE BALLROOMS.
• 01:20 TAKE A LOOK AT THIS ONE.
• 01:22 LAST FALL I WAS PLEASED TO BE A SPEAKER AT A VERY WELL ATTENDED PROPHECY CONFERENCE.
• 01:27 WHILE THERE, OUR CAMERAS WERE ABLE TO CATCH UP
• 01:30 WITH SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL CHRISTIAN PERSONALITIES.
• 01:33 AND WE GET THEIR THOUGHTS ABOUT PROPHECY.
• 01:37 WE HAD A LARGE PHILCO RADIO IN OUR LIVING ROOM
• 01:41 AND IN MAY OF 1948 MY DAD TOLD US ALL TO GET QUIET
• 01:46 AND WE SAT AROUND WAITING A LONG TIME
• 01:49 THAT THE, THEN PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL, DAVID BEN-GURION
• 01:53 WAS GOING TO ANNOUNCE TO THE WORLD THE NAME OF THE LAND.
• 01:56 SO WE'RE ALL WAITING AND WAITING.
• 01:58 AND I DIDN'T KNOW AS A YOUNG BOY WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE EXCITED ABOUT.
• 02:02 BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN, WELL, IT'S JUST LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY.
• 02:09 THE NAME OF THAT LAND IS, OF COURSE, WHAT'S IN THE BIBLE, ERETZ, MEANING LAND, ISRAEL.
• 02:16 ERETZ ISRAEL.
• 02:18 HE SAID THE NAME OF THAT LAND WILL BE EXACTLY WHAT EZEKIEL THE PROPHET SAID IT WOULD BE.
• 02:24 WELL, EVEN THE UNITED STATES WAS QUITE SHOCKED.
• 02:26 THEY THOUGHT THE WORD PALESTINE WAS GOING TO BE IN THE NAME.
• 02:30 AND IT DIDN'T TAKE US LONG, I THINK IT WAS 3 MINUTES,
• 02:34 BUT, I KNOW THAT HARRY TRUMAN, THE PRESIDENT THEN,
• 02:36 ACTUALLY WENT AGAINST THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND CONGRESS, AND I THANK GOD FOR THAT.
• 02:43 YOU KNOW HE'S THE ONE WHO HAD THE SIGN ON HIS DESK - "THE BUCK STOPS HERE".
• 02:48 HE BECAME A VERY GREAT FRIEND OF ISRAEL.
• 02:53 THEY SAY, YOU EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS,
• 02:54 YOU FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIANS, YOU PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE
• 02:56 THAT ISRAEL HAS A FUTURE ARE DANGEROUS.
• 02:59 PERHAPS CHRISTIAN ZIONISM, THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE MOVEMENT IN AMERICA THEY WOULD SAY.
• 03:03 THEY WOULD SAY POPULAR BOOKS LIKE THE "LEFT BEHIND" SERIES AND OTHERS
• 03:06 ARE CREATING A GRASS ROOTS SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL THAT IS AFFECTING GOVERNMENT POLICY
• 03:12 SO THE MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A FUTURE FOR ISRAEL
• 03:17 AND NEED TO SUPPORT THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO THAT EXTENT IT CHANGES FOREIGN POLICY.
• 03:21 AND, THEREFORE, IT INVITES DESTRUCTION FOR OUR OWN COUNTRY.
• 03:25 THEIR BELIEF IS THAT THE ARAB-ISLAMIC WORLD IN ITS HATRED FOR ISRAEL
• 03:30 THEN ATTACKS THE WEST AS A RESULT.
• 03:32 THE VERY FACT THAT CHRISTIANS, THEN ARE INFLUENCING THE GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT ISRAEL
• 03:37 AND ISRAEL, THEN IS BRINGING TERRORISM TO OUR SHORES,
• 03:40 IS LEADING THE WHOLE COUNTRY AND ULTIMATELY THE WORLD TOWARD ARMAGEDDON.
• 03:44 SO WE ARE THE MOST CULPABLE OF ALL PEOPLE.
• 03:49 THE FACT IS IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER IT MAKES GOOD SENSE OR GOOD POLITICS.
• 03:52 IT MATTERS WHETHER IT MAKES GOOD SCRIPTURE.
• 03:54 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING PEOPLE IS THAT THE BIBLE ITSELF SUPPORTS, SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL.
• 04:00 IT WAS GOD'S IDEA.
• 04:01 HE CALLED THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO HIMSELF.
• 04:03 HE MADE THEM A NATION.
• 04:05 HE PROMISED THEM A FUTURE.
• 04:07 AND HE SAID IT WAS FOREVER, NOT JUST UNTIL THE JEWISH PEOPLE REJECTED HIM
• 04:12 OR UNTIL HISTORY REMOVED THEM FROM THE LAND.
• 04:14 NO, FOREVER.
• 04:16 THAT MEANS THE GOD WHO CAN DO THE IMPOSSIBLE, CAN ALWAYS BRING THEM BACK.
• 04:19 OF COURSE, HE HAS BROUGHT THEM BACK AND THAT'S WHAT CAUSED THE CURRENT ISSUE.
• 04:23 I THINK THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BEGINNING STAGE
• 04:28 OF THE SCENARIO THAT WE HAVE PAINTED IN EZEKIEL 36:37-39.
• 04:35 EZEKIEL 36 IS THAT REMARKABLE PASSAGE THAT SPEAKS ABOUT
• 04:39 THE RESTORATION OF THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
• 04:44 IT'S NOT BY COINCIDENCE THAT THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS
• 04:47 BEGIN TO SPEAK OF AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN NATIONS
• 04:52 THAT TODAY ARE IN FACT THE ISLAMIC MILITANT NATIONS WHERE WE FIND THE SEED-BED
• 04:58 OF ISLAMIC MILITARISM; MILITANT, RADICAL, VIOLENT ISLAM.
• 05:04 AND NOW THE PICTURE WE HAVE PAINTED IN THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL
• 05:08 SAYS THAT THESE VERY NATIONS TOGETHER WITH AN ALLIANCE WITH THE COUNTRIES TO THE NORTH,
• 05:14 WHICH WE WOULD CALL THE FORMER SOVIET UNION, WILL, IN FACT AT SOME POINT,
• 05:20 SEEK TO STRIKE AT THE NATION OF ISRAEL.
• 05:23 NOW, I DON'T THINK THAT YOU HAVE TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST, KEN,
• 05:28 TO SEE THAT THIS PICTURE IS RAPIDLY EMERGING.
• 05:32 WHEN AND WHERE IT WILL FIND ITS FULFILLMENT WE DON'T KNOW,
• 05:36 BUT CERTAINLY EVENTS IN ISRAEL ARE ESCALATING ALL THE TIME
• 05:40 THAT THE PICTURE THAT THE BIBLE PAINTS IN MANY INSTANCES ARE NO LONGER FUTURISTIC,
• 05:47 BUT THEY ARE IN THE PRESENT AND CERTAINLY, I THINK,
• 05:51 WE ARE ON THIS COUNTDOWN TO THIS PICTURE BEING TOTALLY FULFILLED.
• 05:56 IT'S THERE FOR EVERYONE TO READ, FOR EVERYONE TO SEE,
• 05:59 BUT I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THIS PICTURE
• 06:02 IS THE GOD OF ISRAEL STEPS IN AT ONE POINT, IS STIRRED UP IN HIS ANGER TO RESIST THESE NATIONS,
• 06:09 TO DEFEND ISRAEL, TO OVERTHROW THESE NATIONS, AND TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE WORLD THEREBY
• 06:16 THAT HE IS THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD, THE GOD OF THE BIBLE,
• 06:20 THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 06:23 THE POSITION OF REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY AND THOSE WHO ARE AGAINST CHRISTIAN ZIONISM
• 06:27 IS THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS SIMPLY THE CHURCH.
• 06:30 THE CHURCH, WHICH IS MADE UP LARGELY OF GENTILES WITH SOME JEWS,
• 06:35 BUT THEY BELIEVE JEWS WHO NOW HAVE CONVERTED AND CHANGED THEIR IDENTITY
• 06:38 TO BECOME CHRISTIAN ARE NO LONGER JEWISH FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE.
• 06:42 THIS IS THE CHURCH, THE KINGDOM OF GOD,
• 06:44 AND THERE'S REALLY NOTHING ELSE AFTER THIS EXCEPT TO HAVE AN ETERNAL STATE,
• 06:50 WHICH HEAVEN IS PART OF THAT EQUATION,
• 06:52 BUT REALLY A RESURRECTION OF ALL PEOPLE, BUT THERE'S NOTHING ELSE.
• 06:56 THE CHURCH IS THE END OF ALL THINGS.
• 06:58 AND YET, IF THAT'S THE CASE, AS JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES ARE TALKING,
• 07:03 WHEN THEY COME TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES
• 07:05 HAVING BEEN TAUGHT FOR 40 DAYS ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD, THE DISCIPLES SAY TO HIM,
• 07:08 LORD, NOW IS IT AT THIS TIME YOU'RE GOING TO RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL?
• 07:14 WELL, NOW IF JESUS COULD HAVE REPLIED AND SAID, OH, NO, YOU MISUNDERSTAND.
• 07:19 THE KINGDOM IS WITHIN YOU.
• 07:20 THE KINGDOM IS THE CHURCH, WHICH IS ABOUT TO BE ESTABLISHED AT PENTECOST.
• 07:23 OH, NO, WE'RE THROUGH WITH ISRAEL.
• 07:25 ISRAEL HAS REJECTED ITS MESSIAH.
• 07:27 THERE'S NO MORE FUTURE FOR ISRAEL.
• 07:29 HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
• 07:31 HIS REPLY IS,
• 07:42 THAT WAS THE MISSION OF THIS CHURCH IS TO CARRY THE WORD OUT TO THE WORLD.
• 07:48 ULTIMATELY, IF WE UNDERSTAND WHAT PROPHECY SAYS,
• 07:50 THEN ONE DAY THE WORLD WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO JERUSALEM
• 07:53 WHERE IT ALL BEGAN TO HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE HE IS GOING TO COME BACK.
• 07:58 I THINK SOME OF THE SCENARIOS THAT SOME CHRISTIANS PAINT OF THIS CONCLUSIONS
• 08:04 ARE QUITE FRANKLY, WRONG.
• 08:06 FOR INSTANCES THERE'S THE ARMAGEDDON SCENARIO THAT'S TAKEN FROM ZECHARIAH 13:8,
• 08:11 THAT 2/3 OF THE PEOPLE WILL BE CUT OFF AND ALL THIS.
• 08:14 PEOPLE SAY WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS FOR?
• 08:16 YOU'RE BRINGING THESE PEOPLE BACK.
• 08:18 YOU HELP THEM, YOU BLESS THEM, BUT THEY ARE SLAUGHTERED.
• 08:21 YOU SEE, I THINK THAT IS TOTALLY ERRONEOUS.
• 08:23 I DO NOT THINK IT STANDS ON ANY BIBLICAL FOUNDATION WHATSOEVER.
• 08:28 I THINK THE SCRIPTURES TEACH THAT GOD BRINGS ISRAEL BACK.
• 08:32 ISAIAH 60 SAYS THE NATIONS WILL GO DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO DARKNESS, BUT ISRAEL WILL ARISE,
• 08:38 ARISE INTO THE LIGHT AND GLORY OF GOD.
• 08:40 AS FOR THE ZECHARIAH 13:8 PASSAGE, THE CONTEXT TEACHES IF YOU READ IT CAREFULLY,
• 08:48 AND THE REALITY ON THE GROUND VERIFIES THAT IN A.D. 70,
• 08:53 2/3 OF THE COUNTRY OF THE JEWISH POPULATION WERE CUT OFF.
• 08:59 THAT'S ABOUT THE SHEPHERD PASSAGE WHERE HE IS STRUCK AND THE SHEEP ARE SCATTERED
• 09:03 AND IT GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT THE EVENTS I BELIEVE AS JESUS TAUGHT IN MARK 13, MATTHEW 24, LUKE 21
• 09:11 OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM IN A.D. 70.
• 09:15 SURELY IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT 2/3 OF THE JEWISH POPULATION LIVING IN THE LAND AT THAT TIME
• 09:22 WERE IN FACT CUT OFF, WERE IN FACT LIQUIDATED BY THE ROMANS
• 09:26 AND THE OTHERS WERE TAKEN INTO EXILE.
• 09:28 BUT, I BELIEVE THAT ISRAEL WILL GO THROUGH CHALLENGING TIMES.
• 09:33 BELIEVE ME, THE WORLD IS GOING TO GO THROUGH A GREATER AND BIGGER TIME OF DIFFICULTY.
• 09:40 THIS TINY NATION WILL HAVE ITS CHALLENGES AND ITS CONFLICTS,
• 09:44 BUT THE GOD OF ISRAEL WILL DEFEND HER, BRING HER THROUGH IT,
• 09:48 AND WILL BLESS HER AND BRING HER TO THE AGE AS THE JEWISH SAGES SAY OF REDEMPTION.
• 09:54 THE WORLD IS WHAT I AM REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT.
• 09:57 BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS GOD WILL MAKE A FULL END OF THE NATIONS.
• 10:01 THE TINY ISRAEL HE WILL REDEEM.
• 10:03 SO, MY ESTIMATION TO STAND WITH ISRAEL, TO LOVE ISRAEL, TO BLESS HER,
• 10:09 IS TO BE ON THE WINNING SIDE, NOT THE LOSING SIDE.
• 10:27 FOR INSIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES OF ISRAEL AND BIBLE PROPHECY,
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• 10:40 OUR CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, THE INSTITUTE OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN STUDIES INCLUDES
• 10:45 READING PACKETS, TEACHING CASSETTES AND MAIL-IN TESTS.
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• 11:00 HAVE YOU SEEN THE PROMISED LAND WHERE THE DISCIPLES CAST THEIR NETS,
• 11:08 WHERE JESUS GAVE THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT,
• 11:12 WHERE ROMAN COLUMNS STILL STAND,
• 11:16 WHERE THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS WERE FOUND,
• 11:20 WHERE BIBLE PROPHECY IS BEING FULFILLED?
• 11:25 OPEN YOUR EYES TO ISRAEL.
• 11:29 WELL, THERE'S ISRAEL AS WE SEE IT, COME ON ALONG.
• 11:33 BELIEVE ME, THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE.
• 11:37 NOW BACK THERE AT THAT PRE-TRIB CONFERENCE, WHICH IT REALLY WAS CALLED,
• 11:40 I MET SOME PERSONALITIES, ESPECIALLY TIM LAHAYE,
• 11:44 WHO, OF COURSE, HAS AUTHORED THIS "LEFT BEHIND" SERIES.
• 11:48 HE HAS DONE A GREAT DEAL OF GOOD WORK.
• 11:50 WE TALKED TO HIM ABOUT HIS VIEWS OF WHAT'S COMING UP.
• 11:54 WELL, TIM, HERE WE ARE AT PROPHECY CONFERENCE WHERE WE USUALLY MEET.
• 11:59 YOU'RE THE AUTHOR OF THIS TERRIFIC PROPHECY SERIES, "LEFT BEHIND".
• 12:05 HOW MANY COPIES HAVE BEEN SOLD?
• 12:07 ABOUT 60 MILLION.
• 12:09 INCREDIBLE.
• 12:10 OF COURSE, THERE ARE 14 OF THEM.
• 12:12 THE FIRST BOOK SOLD 8 MILLION PLUS.
• 12:16 AND EACH ONE IS KIND OF GATHERING MOMENTUM.
• 12:18 THEY PUT IT ALL TOGETHER.
• 12:20 IT'S BEEN A MIRACLE TO BOTH JERRY JENKINS AND MYSELF.
• 12:23 DO YOU THINK YOU'VE CHANGED THE THINKING OF SECULAR PEOPLE?
• 12:27 WELL, TWO THINGS.
• 12:29 THE NEW YORK TIMES DOESN'T COMPLIMENT ME VERY OFTEN AS YOU KNOW,
• 12:32 BUT, THEY WERE COMMENTING ABOUT THIS
• 12:34 AND THE PHENOMENAL SALE OF THESE THINGS AND THAT PEOPLE WERE READING THEM.
• 12:38 THEY SAID, AND THE AMAZING THING ABOUT IT IS, IT'S UNASHAMEDLY CHRISTIAN.
• 12:44 [LAUGHING]
• 12:46 I KIND OF LIKE THAT.
• 12:48 YES, PEOPLE ARE READING THEM.
• 12:51 ONE OF THE REASONS I WENT INTO FICTION IS BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY FICTION READERS
• 12:56 THAT NEVER READ OUR NONFICTION MATERIAL.
• 12:58 I HAD WRITTEN SOMETHING LIKE 50 NONFICTION BOOKS, HAD 13 MILLION IN PRINT,
• 13:04 BUT THERE'S THIS ARMY OF PEOPLE THAT READ FICTION AND I WANTED TO REACH THEM.
• 13:09 SO I PRAYED.
• 13:10 MORE THAN ONCE I WAS CONVINCED THAT I COULDN'T WRITE FICTION,
• 13:14 I GAVE MY IDEA TO JERRY JENKINS AND TOGETHER WE TEAMED UP.
• 13:19 HE'S JUST A GREAT FICTION WRITER.
• 13:21 SO MANY LETTERS FROM PEOPLE WHO GET SAVED, INCLUDING JEWS.
• 13:27 DO YOU KNOW I COUNTED JUST THE OTHER DAY
• 13:29 IN THE LAST 4 WEEKS, 6 JEWS HAVE CONTACTED US TO SHARE WITH US HOW THEY CAME TO FAITH IN JESUS.
• 13:36 IT'S BEEN INTERESTING.
• 13:38 ARE YOU SEEING, SENSING A MOVING OF THE SPIRIT IN AN UNUSUAL WAY AMONG THE JEWISH PEOPLE?
• 13:44 OH, YES.
• 13:46 I HEARD SOMEONE SAY THERE'S A HUNDRED THOUSAND MESSIANIC BELIEVERS,
• 13:50 JEWISH CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA.
• 13:52 I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, TIM, WHEN I WAS SAVED IN 1971,
• 13:56 I THINK I KNEW ALL THE JEWISH BELIEVERS.
• 13:58 IT IS THRILLING TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE CONTEMPLATING IT.
• 14:02 I TALKED TO A DOCTOR AND A LAWYER, MARRIED,
• 14:06 THAT ACCEPTED CHRIST JUST BY THE WITNESS OF CHRISTIANS AND BY READING THE BIBLE.
• 14:12 THE BIBLE SPOKE TO THEM IN UNMISTAKABLE TERMS.
• 14:15 THE DOCTOR TOOK SOMETHING LIKE 15 YEARS TO COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST,
• 14:19 BUT HE CAME ON HIS OWN AND HE JUST PREMEDITATEDLY DECIDED THAT JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH.
• 14:26 SO, HE RECEIVED HIM AND HE SAID JUST EVERYTHING OPENED UP TO ME JUST LIKE NEW GLASSES.
• 14:33 YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE ENCOURAGING THINGS ABOUT SALVATION
• 14:37 IS WHEN IT HAPPENED TO PEOPLE THEY DON'T CHANGE THEIR MIND AFTERWARDS.
• 14:42 THEY DON'T SEND IT BACK.
• 14:43 ISN'T THAT AMAZING?
• 14:45 IT'S A THRILLING TESTIMONY TO THE REALITY OF OUR FAITH.
• 14:48 YOU KNOW, IN FAIRNESS TO PETER JENNINGS, WHO'S GONE TO HIS REWARD WHEREVER THAT IS,
• 14:53 PETER JENNINGS WAS DOING A LIFE OF CHRIST, NOT A LIFE OF CHRIST, BUT A PROGRAM ABOUT CHRIST
• 15:01 AND HE ENDED UP BY SAYING AND UNFORTUNATELY
• 15:04 HE DIDN'T HAVE ONE SINGLE CONSERVATIVE ON THERE THAT HE WOULD INTERVIEW.
• 15:07 HE'D BROUGHT A LOT OF THE JESUS SEMINAR SKEPTICS.
• 15:10 BUT, AT THE END HE SAID THIS AND I THINK IT'S SO PROFOUND,
• 15:14 HE SAID, BUT YOU KNOW CHRISTIANITY IS A RELIGION BASED ON RESURRECTION
• 15:21 AND THE BEST PROOF THEY HAVE FOR THE REALITY FOR THE RESURRECTION IS CHRISTIANITY ITSELF.
• 15:29 CHRISTIANITY WOULD NOT EXIST WERE IT NOT FOR THE REALITY OF THE RESURRECTION.
• 15:34 OH, HE'S RIGHT.
• 15:36 HE'S EXACTLY RIGHT.
• 15:38 WHO WOULD BE FOLLOWING JESUS THE NAZARENE IF HE HADN'T RISEN FROM THE DEAD
• 15:44 AND HAD SO MUCH POWERFUL EVIDENCE AND IN HIS APPEARANCES?
• 15:48 PAUL SAYS WE DEFEAT THE LAST ENEMY.
• 15:51 THAT'S ONE OF MY GOALS IS TO WORK WITH A MOVIE COMPANY.
• 15:56 WE'LL BE ANNOUNCING IT PUBLICLY IN ABOUT 2 MONTHS.
• 15:59 WE JUST FINALIZED THE CONTRACT.
• 16:02 THE IDEA WILL BE TO FOLLOW UP THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST WITH A HIGH QUALITY,
• 16:08 PROFESSIONALLY MADE MOVIE ON THE RESURRECTION APPEARANCES.
• 16:13 OH, HOW WONDERFUL.
• 16:15 I CONVINCED THEM THAT THE PASSION, AS GREAT A STORY AS IT WAS,
• 16:19 IS NOT THE REAL STORY OF CHRISTIANITY.
• 16:23 THE REAL STORY IS THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS.
• 16:26 I TRIED TO CONVINCE MEL GIBSON OF THAT BEFORE HE CAME OUT WITH THIS.
• 16:29 I SAW IT, HE HAD US IN. WE REVIEWED IT.
• 16:32 HE JUST KIND OF CHANGED IT A LITTLE BIT TO MAKE IT KIND OF SYMBOLIC.
• 16:36 BUT I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOVIE ON THE REAL STORY.
• 16:39 CAN YOU IMAGINE A PRESENTATION OF PETER AND JOHN GOING DOWN INTO THE TOMB?
• 16:45 THEY'VE HEARD THAT JESUS IS MISSING.
• 16:47 PETER LOOKS AROUND AND HE'S WONDERING WHERE HE LEFT HIS BODY.
• 16:50 SO HE GOES OUTSIDE.
• 16:52 BUT JOHN, THE MEDITATIVE, REFLECTIVE ONE GOES IN THERE
• 16:56 AND HE SEES THE GRAVE CLOTHES IN PERFECT ORDER
• 16:59 AND THE HANDKERCHIEF FOLDED AND LEFT BY ITSELF.
• 17:03 AND HE REALIZES THAT THE BODY OF JESUS HAS JUST RISEN THROUGH THE GRAVE CLOTHES.
• 17:08 AND THE SCRIPTURE SAYS JOHN SAW AND HE BELIEVED.
• 17:13 HE WAS THE FIRST ONE, I THINK THAT RESPONDED TO THE RESURRECTION.
• 17:17 AND WHEN I SHARED THIS WITH THE PEOPLE IN HOLLYWOOD,
• 17:20 THEY WERE SO EXCITED ABOUT WHAT THEY COULD DO GRAPHICALLY AND PICTORIALLY
• 17:25 TO MAKE IT COME TO LIFE.
• 17:27 WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
• 17:29 GOLLY, THERE'S JUST NO GREATER STORY TO FILM.
• 17:32 THAT'S WHAT I THINK.
• 17:33 IN FACT, ZOLA, I'M ASKING GOD IN MY LIFETIME
• 17:37 TO LET ME SEE THROUGH MOVIES AT LEAST A MILLION COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST.
• 17:42 I GET KIND OF GOOSE BUMPS BECAUSE ALL MY LIFE
• 17:45 I TAUGHT THAT WE OUGHT TO USE THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
• 17:50 NOW I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY MYSELF TO USE HOLLYWOOD'S NICKEL
• 17:53 TO BRING PEOPLE TO A SAVING KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS.
• 17:56 THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL.
• 17:58 YOU KNOW, YOU'RE JUST THE MAN TO DO THAT.
• 18:00 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT, BUT I KNOW FOOLS RUSH IN WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
• 18:07 AND I'VE NEVER BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING AN ANGEL.
• 18:09 I'VE WATCHED YOUR MINISTRY FOR A LONG TIME.
• 18:12 YOU'VE ALWAYS DONE WHAT THE LORD SAID.
• 18:16 YOU'VE STRUCK OUT THERE AND GOT THE JOB DONE.
• 18:18 JUST AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, YOU'RE FAITHFUL IN A FEW THINGS AND NOW YOU'RE RULER OVER MANY.
• 18:25 YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO BAD YOURSELF.
• 18:26 YOU'VE BEEN BEATING THE SAME TUB THAT I'VE KNOWN FOR 35 YEARS.
• 18:30 HERE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT JESUS AND GETTING THE PROPHETIC WORD,
• 18:33 TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO FACE THE FACT THAT HE'S COMING WHETHER THEY'RE READY OR NOT.
• 18:39 OUR DREAM, AND I KNOW YOU SHARE THIS, WE DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO BE LEFT BEHIND.
• 18:44 HOW SOON DO YOU THINK IT IS?
• 18:47 DO YOU HAVE A HUNCH?
• 18:49 I HAVE THIS GUT FEELING THAT MY WIFE AND I ARE GOING UP IN THE RAPTURE TOGETHER.
• 18:52 I SUPPOSE YOU AND YOUR WIFE HAVE THE SAME FEELING.
• 18:54 ABSOLUTELY, I ALWAYS HAVE THAT FEELING.
• 18:56 IF HE'S COMING IN MY LIFETIME, HE BETTER COME PRETTY QUICK.
• 19:01 I HAD A BYPASS OPERATION RECENTLY, A FEW MONTHS AGO.
• 19:06 THAT'S MY SECOND ONE AND THERE'S ALWAYS A MOMENT THERE
• 19:09 WHERE YOU REALLY WONDER IF THAT'S THE END OF THE LINE.
• 19:13 YET EACH TIME I THINK, WELL, WHEN I WAKE UP I'LL EITHER SEE THE DOCTOR OR THE KING.
• 19:19 I CAN'T LOSE.
• 19:20 WELL, I CARRY A PACEMAKER AROUND JUST TO KEEP THAT THINK GOING
• 19:23 AND I'VE HAD A STINT IN MY HEART AND A FEW OTHER FALSE PARTS,
• 19:26 BUT WHEN THE RAPTURE OCCURS, YOU WON'T BELIEVE THE JUNK I'M GOING TO LEAVE BEHIND.
• 19:30 I COULD USE A NEW BODY AS WELL.
• 19:33 SERIOUSLY, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE IN DEFAULT OF
• 19:39 OR WE COULD SPEND MORE TIME AS CHRISTIANS, THE BODY OF CHRIST
• 19:43 TELLING ABOUT THE WONDERFUL PLAN GOD HAS FOR OUR FUTURE.
• 19:47 INSTEAD OF GETTING PEOPLE ALL WORKED UP ABOUT DOS AND DONTS,
• 19:50 WE OUGHT TO GET PEOPLE TO REALIZE THAT THE BEST YEARS ARE YET TO COME.
• 19:55 SOMEONE HAS SAGELY SAID, YOU PROBABLY HAVE HEARD THIS BECAUSE YOU ARE AN EVANGELIST,
• 19:59 BUT, SOME EVANGELIST SAID, FOR THE UNSAVED, THIS WORLD IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS,
• 20:07 BUT FOR BELIEVERS THIS WORLD IS AS BAD AS IT GETS.
• 20:10 OH, THAT'S GOOD.
• 20:12 THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
• 20:13 I WAS TALKING TO HAL LINDSEY.
• 20:15 I TOLD HIM HIS HAIR IS GETTING GRAY.
• 20:17 OF COURSE, I HAVE NO ROOM TO TALK.
• 20:20 I TOLD HIM, WE'RE GETTING OLDER.
• 20:22 WHO IS THERE BEHIND US TO CONTINUE TO TEACH THIS PROPHECY
• 20:25 AND TO SOUND THE WARNING OF THE END TIMES?
• 20:28 HE SAID, WELL, THAT MAY NOT BE NECESSARY.
• 20:32 [LAUGHS]
• 20:35 OR MAYBE IT WILL BE SOME OF OUR DISCIPLES LIKE YOU WERE HERE
• 20:38 AND GAVE AN EXCELLENT MESSAGE TO OUR CROWD TODAY.
• 20:41 PROPHECY IS GROWING.
• 20:42 I THINK THAT WE HAVE THE WINNING MESSAGE.
• 20:46 IT REMINDS ME WHEN I WAS A SAN DIEGO PASTOR FOR 25 YEARS, I WAS A SAN DIEGO CHARGER FAN.
• 20:52 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE A FOOTBALL FAN.
• 20:53 WELL, I'M A DALLAS COWBOY FAN.
• 20:55 WELL, YOU KNOW HOW IT IS.
• 20:56 HERE WAS ONE OF THOSE GAMES WHERE THEY WERE JUST GOING BACK AND FORTH
• 20:59 AND WE WERE 4 POINTS BEHIND AND JUST COULDN'T CATCH UP
• 21:02 AND FINALLY 30 SECONDS BEFORE THE END OF THE GAME
• 21:06 LANCE ALWORTH GETS IN THE HUDDLE AND HE SAYS TO JOHN HADLE,
• 21:09 THROW IT AS FAR AS YOU CAN, I'LL CATCH IT.
• 21:13 IN THE END ZONE, ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
• 21:15 SURE ENOUGH, HE REARS BACK AND WITH SECONDS ON THE CLOCK
• 21:19 HE CAUGHT THAT PASS AND WE WON BY 3 POINTS.
• 21:22 I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT OF THE SECOND COMING LIKE THAT.
• 21:24 IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE LOSING, WE'RE LOSING, WE CAN'T CATCH UP,
• 21:27 BUT THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, JESUS IS GOING TO SHOUT FROM HEAVEN,
• 21:30 WE'RE ALL GOING UP AT THE SAME TIME AND EVERYONE THAT KNOWS HIM IS GOING TO BE SAVED,
• 21:36 BE CHANGED AND WE'LL BE WITH HIM FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER.
• 21:40 WE MUST BE RIGHT ABOUT WHAT WE'RE TEACHING IN THE END TIMES PROPHECY
• 21:45 BECAUSE WE'VE LIVED A SPAN OF TIME LONG ENOUGH THAT SOMETHING SHOULD GO WRONG,
• 21:51 SOMETHING WE SAID WAY BACK SHOULD NOT BE COMING OUT,
• 21:56 BUT EVERYTHING IS THE WAY WE TAUGHT IT TODAY THEN WHEN WE STARTED.
• 22:00 THAT'S THE AMAZING THING.
• 22:02 I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT THE OTHER DAY.
• 22:03 I WENT INTO PRINT ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THESE THINGS
• 22:08 AND I DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE ANYTHING OF ANY SIGNIFICANCE.
• 22:11 LITTLE MINOR THINGS, DETAILS, APPLICATIONS, BUT NOT THE DOCTRINE.
• 22:15 JESUS IS COMING AND I'M MORE CONVINCED OF IT THAN EVER BEFORE.
• 22:19 AS A MATTER OF FACT, WHEN WE DID OUR STUDY BIBLE,
• 22:22 I POINTED OUT THE USUAL THING THAT THERE ARE 109 PROPHECIES OF JESUS' FIRST COMING.
• 22:27 WE DISCOVERED BY A COMPUTER RESEARCH
• 22:29 THAT THERE ARE 321 PROPHECIES OF JESUS' SECOND COMING.
• 22:33 SO, THE FIRST COMING IS A CERTIFIED, HISTORICAL FACT.
• 22:38 THEREFORE, THE SECOND COMING SHOULD BE THREE TIMES AS CERTAIN TO OCCUR.
• 22:42 I'M PUTTING MY TRUST IN THAT.
• 22:45 TIM, THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING.
• 22:47 THANK YOU, AND KEEP ON DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING, IT'S RIGHT.
• 22:51 ♪HAS MESSIAH COME? ♪HAS THE KING RETURNED?
• 22:55 ♪ARE WE SAVED? ♪O BLESSED BE HE!
• 22:59 ♪WHEN THE KING COMES HONE ♪TO THE LAND HE LOVES
• 23:04 ♪WE CAN LIVE, WE CAN PRAY, ♪WE CAN BE!
• 23:12 ♪ISRAEL MY LOVE, ♪ISRAEL MY PROMISED,
• 23:21 ♪CHOSEN OF GOD ♪CHOSEN FOR ME
• 23:29 ♪HOMELAND FOREVER ♪LAND OF MESSIAH
• 23:36 ♪ISRAEL, MY LOVE,
• 23:46 ♪OUR GOD WATCHES THEE.
• 24:00 MOST OF THESE ACCOMPLISHED MEN AT THE PRE-TRIB CONFERENCE
• 24:07 CERTAINLY ENCOURAGED ME TO CONTINUE PROMOTING ISRAEL.
• 24:11 OUR MINISTRY DOES ISRAEL.
• 24:13 THAT'S ALL IT'S DONE FOR 35 YEARS.
• 24:15 I HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING OF CHURCHES THAT DON'T LOOK AT ISRAEL OR UNDERSTAND THE PLACE
• 24:20 OR LOOK AT WHAT GOD IS DOING THERE.
• 24:24 IT'S AMAZING TO ME, MY MOUTH FALLS OPEN.
• 24:27 SEMINARIES ARE FALLING AWAY FROM IT.
• 24:29 I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.
• 24:31 UNTIL THE LAST DAY OF THIS MINISTRY WE'RE GOING TO PROMOTE ISRAEL.
• 24:35 WE'RE GOING TO TEACH IT TO YOU. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE.
• 24:38 WE'RE GOING TO EXPLAIN IT TO YOU.
• 24:40 BECAUSE BELIEVERS NEED TO KNOW IT.
• 24:42 ISRAEL IS GOD'S TIMEPIECE.
• 24:44 BY LOOKING AT IT YOU CAN TELL WHAT'S COMING UP.
• 24:46 THE UNBELIEVING CHURCH DON'T KNOW ONE WAY OR THE OTHER WHAT'S COMING UP.
• 24:51 AT LEAST BELIEVERS CAN LOOK AT IT AND GET A VERY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT'S HAPPENING.
• 24:58 BY THE WAY, I WON'T STOP. I WILL NEVER STOP.
• 25:02 IF YOU TUNE INTO THIS PROGRAM IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT ISRAEL
• 25:04 AND I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO PRAY FOR JERUSALEM AT THE END OF THE PROGRAM
• 25:07 AND THAT WILL BE CONSTANT.
• 25:10 WITH THAT SAID, I'M FIGHTING LUNG CANCER RIGHT NOW.
• 25:15 I ANNOUNCED THAT ON A PAST PROGRAM.
• 25:18 I GUESS A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW IT.
• 25:19 I CERTAINLY HAVE RECEIVED A LOT OF EMAILS AND LETTERS AND SO ON.
• 25:24 IT'S A TROUBLING DISEASE, OBVIOUSLY.
• 25:27 THERE'S NO REAL CURE AND THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS TO DO TO TRY TO KEEP GOING.
• 25:32 BUT A COUPLE OF THINGS ARE IN MY FAVOR.
• 25:36 ONE IS I'M COUNTING ON THE RAPTURE.
• 25:40 IT'S NOT SO STRANGE AN IDEA WITH WHAT I SEE GOING ON IN THE WORLD.
• 25:44 AGAIN, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT ISRAEL, YOU CAN SEE IRAN AND THIS LOONY PRESIDENT OF THEIRS
• 25:52 WANTING TO WIPE IT OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AT LEAST HE SAYS,
• 25:55 AND BUILDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND SO ON.
• 25:57 THIS LEADS TO A MAJOR SHOWDOWN.
• 26:01 OR YOU COULD EVEN LOOK AT HAMAS, PAPER TIGERS,
• 26:04 BUT THERE THEY ARE MARCHING UP AND DOWN THE STREETS.
• 26:07 THEY COULD PULL SOME ATTACK ON ISRAEL.
• 26:10 THAT WOULD PRECIPITATE SOMETHING LIKE GOG AND MAGOG, A FULL SCALE INVASION OF ISRAEL.
• 26:16 IN ANY CASE, HOWEVER IT HAPPENS, THE LORD TAKES UP OUT OF HERE AT THAT POINT
• 26:22 BEFORE THAT GOG AND MAGOG INVASION.
• 26:25 SO FRANKLY, I COUNT ON GOD AND SO SHOULD YOU.
• 26:30 FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE BE SAVED.
• 26:33 IF YOU'RE IN ONE OF THESE LOST CHURCHES GET OUT OF THERE AND GO TO A REAL CHURCH.
• 26:37 I WAS SAVED IN 1971.
• 26:39 I'VE HAD A GREAT LIFE.
• 26:40 IT'S BEEN WONDERFUL. IT REALLY HAS.
• 26:49 I'LL TELL YOU, THAT'S WONDERFUL.
• 26:52 I'M THINKING AHEAD. I'M GETTING PROMOTED TO HEAVEN.
• 26:55 I'M GOING TO SEE THE LORD SOON AND I'M GLAD OF IT.
• 26:59 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.